Nick and I haven't been very sensitive to our boys or my family in some of the words we have chosen to use. This week has been an eye opener in how hurtful some words that we take for granted can be for example we have cut out the words "weird" and "crazy" when describing other people.
Recently Saints Helping Saints has been helping a couple of families and I guess I knew that there a gazillion other families out there with similar or worse circumstances but it was just such an overwhelming thought that I didn't let myself dwell on it. I guess knowing or admitting you have a responsibility to help really commits you to it and not "knowing" but just doing is much more altruistic.
I read an FB post yesterday about an entire first grade class in NKy that is expected to not have "Santa" this year, or any other year for that matter. Break my heart!
I take my kids to daycare and I see kids dropped off in sweatshirts and huge shoes. Dirty kids with bruises on their faces. My first thought is that their parents are irresponsible or that they are just bad parents and their kids are disgusting..... But then i go to pick Nicholas up and a little boy punches him in the stomach, right in the stomach with me standing right there. I hollered at the kid, I have never been so caught off guard or angry at another little kid. The Teacher comes over to me and explains that the kid has aggressive behavior issues that revolve around women. He has witnessed violence in his home and they are working things out. How do I react to that? How do I become OK with another kid hurting my little boy because he has been hurt and he is perpetuating that violence? How do I teach my sons to respect other people and women when other kids are already acting out in these ways?
This is going to be a long road but we will find our way down it. So, go tell John that this mother is committed to raising her sons to live by the Gospels.
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